Word: sheetz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gonococci most frequently infect Fallopian tubes and ovaries; streptococci and staphylococci, the uterus. To cure such infections in women, doctors used to be obliged to resort to surgery. Dr. Virgil Sheetz Counsellor of the Mayo Clinic, recently told his colleagues that he cured 73% of such inflammatory cases with the Elliott treatment applied an hour a day for two to three weeks. Dr. Simpson in his last week's account reported 90% cures without surgery...
Died. Elie Sheetz, 84, founder of Martha Washington Candy Co., antique collector; in Washington. In President Grant's administration, peddling his candy in Washington's Cabin John Park, he was asked the name, flippantly answered, "Martha Washington" (now 18 factories. TOO stores, over 600 agencies, selling 65 kinds of candy, grossing several millions yearly...